Nov 10, 2026 · 2 hr 31 min · 22 segments
After last week's election, Reese asks whether MAGA is dead and tells Connecticut Republicans to let Democrats govern — and keep score, starting with affordability. \- Is MAGA Dead? — Conservatives…
I'm asking this question because I feel like there is an energy in the conservative movement here in Connecticut.
And it disappoints me.
But as I like to say all the time, acceptance is the answer.
But it disappoints me.
I would be lying to you if I didn't feel uncomfortable hearing it.
And it's this abandonment of your ideals because of the election laws.
And I understand that it's devastating.
If you let the news media tell you, you've just dropped your arms.
Right? It's like the fight's over.
You lost last Tuesday.
And you're like, oh.
You're defeated, and you don't want to get beat up on anymore, so you're just running for the hills.
The Democrats are coming, and you're all going to run to your silos and hide and just going to say, well, okay, let me just gather up all my stuff.
I know they're coming to take it.
Let's just grab what we can.
Let's just protect what we can because they're going to come and take it all.
And now everybody wants to go into hiding.
And here's where it's off.
One of the things that I'm noticing that you're doing is you're grabbing Donald Trump by the legs and the arms and you're throwing him overboard.
Here, have him.
Take him.
Take him.
We never liked him anyway.
I'm seeing it.
I'm asking this question because I feel like there is an energy in the conservative movement here in Connecticut.
And it disappoints me.
But as I like to say all the time, acceptance is the answer.
But it disappoints me.
I would be lying to you if I didn't feel uncomfortable hearing it.
And it's this abandonment of your ideals because of the election laws.
And I understand that it's devastating.
If you let the news media tell you, you've just dropped your arms.
Right? It's like the fight's over.
You lost last Tuesday.
And you're like, oh.
You're defeated, and you don't want to get beat up on anymore, so you're just running for the hills.
The Democrats are coming, and you're all going to run to your silos and hide and just going to say, well, okay, let me just gather up all my stuff.
I know they're coming to take it.
Let's just grab what we can.
Let's just protect what we can because they're going to come and take it all.
And now everybody wants to go into hiding.
And here's where it's off.
One of the things that I'm noticing that you're doing is you're grabbing Donald Trump by the legs and the arms and you're throwing him overboard.
Here, have him.
Take him.
Take him.
We never liked him anyway.
I'm seeing it.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.